- May 2019: coverage of our PNAS paper on "the A/B effect" by Cass Sunstein at Bloomberg, by Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revoution, by Jesse Singal for British Psychological Society, and by Vox and Mother Jones
- 1/14/19: Michelle will discuss her work as an ethics advisor to SSGAC and present her empirical work on biobank participant perspectives on social science genomic research conducted under broad consent as part of Columbia's Center for Research on Ethical, Legal & Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic & Behavioral Genetics ELSI Seminar Series
- 11/30/18: Michelle will chair a panel she organized on responsible communication of social science genomics at the Polygenic Prediction and its Application in Social Science Conference at the University of Southern California
- 11/15–17/18: Michelle will present her work on ethical issues involved when using social media data in research at PRIM&R's Advancing Ethics Research Conference in San Diego
- 11/9/18: Michelle will present at the 3nd annual symposium and workshop on the ethical, legal and social implications of learning health systems (ELSI-LHS) at the University of Michigan
- 11/3–7/18: Michelle will present the results of a randomized, controlled trial of eConsent and traditional consent to biobank research (collaborative work with Geisinger's Jen Wagner and Sage Bionetworks' Meg Doerr and John Wilbanks) at the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association in San Francisco
- 10/18–21/18: Michelle will present work (with Geisinger colleagues Jen Wagner, Andy Faucett, and Dan Davis) on biobank participants' attitudes about potentially controversial genetics research conducted under "broad consent" at the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) in Anaheim, CA
- 10/3/18: Michelle will present her work on ethical data sharing at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Quebec City
- 8/1/2018: Bloomberg wrote a column on Patrick and Chris' study "65% of Americans believe they are above average in intelligence: Results of two nationally representative surveys"
- 7/20/18: Patrick and Chris' op-ed "You're Not as Smart as You Think: Perils and Benefits of Overconfidence" appeared in the WSJ
- 7/15/18: Michelle will speak about the A/B illusion on a panel about "Ethics in Computational Social Science" at the annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) in Evanston, IL
- 7/3/18: Patrick and Chris's article (with Dan Simons of the University of Illinois), "65% of Americans believe they are above average in intelligence: Results of two nationally representative surveys," was published in PLoS ONE; see coverage by Real Clear Science
- 6/9/18: Chris presented the lab's first paper—with Duncan Watts and William Cai (Microsoft Research)—empirically investigating the A/B illusion, "The A/B Illusion: Objecting to Experimentally Comparing Two Unobjectionable Policies" (manuscript submitted) at the biennial Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference at Harvard Business School
- 4/9/18: Michelle published a chapter, Ethical Considerations When Companies Study—and Fail to Study—their Customers, in The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy
- 3/27/18: Patrick's paper with Joachim Krueger (Brown), "Putting the P Value in its Place," was accepted by The American Statistician
- 2/23/18: Michelle's tutorial, "Practical Tips for Ethical Data Sharing," was published in the inaugural issue of the new APS journal, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS)
- 1/3/18: Geoff will present his research with Michelle on "IRB Risk Aversion and Prospective Participant Welfare," and his own work on "Beyond Emotion versus Reason: Does Neuroscience Undermine a Classic Metaethical Distinction?," at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Savannah, GA
- 11/30/2017: Michelle appeared on Genome Magazine's The Genome Podcast
- 11/7/2017: Michelle was a panelist on "Ethics and Privacy in the Era of Big Data" at the Technology in Psychiatry Summit at Harvard Medical School
- 11/1/17: Michelle was quoted in Antonio Regalado, "Eugenics 2.0: We're at the Dawn of Choosing Embyros By Health, Height, and More," MIT Technology Review
- 10/27/2017: Michelle was profiled in Genome Magazine
- 10/26/2017: Michelle and Geisinger colleagues published Early cancer diagnoses through BRCA1/2 screening of unselected adult biobank participants in Genetics in Medicine, reporting early clinical experiences returning genomic research results to patients in a learning healthcare system
- 10/11/17: Patrick was quoted in Julie Beck, "People Who Boast About Their IQ Are Losers," The Atlantic
- 10/9/17–10/10/17: Michelle attended Working Group meeting of NIH-funded grant to explore the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of unregulated mobile health apps in San Diego
- 10/12/2017: Patrick joined Joachim Krueger (Brown) at the American Statistical Association to present their research on NHST's p-value
- 10/9/2017: Patrick presented to the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network at the National Human Genome Research Institute about his research with Michelle on avoidance of genetic/genomic information
- 10/4/2017: Patrick presented research he's conducting with Michelle on avoidance of genetic/genomic information at the Moral Psychology Research Group meeting and conference at Penn State University
- 10/4/2017: Geoff presented his work on neuromoral diversity and universal moral values at the Moral Psychology Research Group meeting and conference at Penn State University
- 9/28/17: Michelle was quoted in Emily Mullin, "As Consumer DNA Testing Grows, Two States Resist," MIT Technology Review
- 9/27/17: GenomeWeb reports on Geisinger's collaboration with Clear Genetics, including development and testing (with the Meyer lab) of a chatbot to guide consent to participate in Geisinger's MyCode Community Health Initiative biobank study
- 9/18/17: Michelle was quoted in "What Would Happen If Everyone in the World Lost Their Sex Drive?," Gizmodo